Global Covid-19 death toll reaches 545,414
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 545,414 people because the outbreak emerged in China previous December, according to a tally from official sources published by AFP at 1900 GMT on Wednesday.
At least 11,906,470 cases of coronavirus have been registered in 196 countries and territories. Of the, at least 6,295,700 are actually considered recovered.
The tallies, using info collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the Universe Wellbeing Organisation (WHO), probably reflect simply a fraction of some of the number of infections.
Various countries are testing just symptomatic or the many serious cases.
The past a day saw 5,523 new deaths recorded and 200,181 new cases.
Brazil recorded 1,254 new deaths, accompanied by the United States (1,044) and Mexico (895).
The United States may be the worst-hit country with 131,857 deaths from 3,022,899 cases. At least 936,476 persons have already been declared recovered.
Following the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 66,741 deaths from 1,668,589 cases, the uk with 44,517 deaths from 286,979 cases, Italy with 34,914 deaths from 242,149 cases and Mexico with 32,014 deaths from 268,008 cases.
Belgium gets the highest fatality level per 100,000 inhabitants with 84 deaths prior to the UK (66), Spain (61), Italy (58) and Sweden (54).
China - excluding Hong Kong and Macau - has to date declared 83,572 instances (seven new since Tuesday), including 4,634 deaths (zero new deaths), and 78,548 recoveries.
The southern African country of Lesotho announced its first coronavirus death.
Europe overall recorded 200,812 deaths from 2,770,388 cases, the United States and Canada have 140,625 deaths from 3,129,267 attacks, Latin America and the Caribbean 132,915 deaths from 3,039,720 cases, Asia 40,027 deaths from 1,579,739 instances, Middle East 18,872 deaths from 865,653 cases, Africa 12,028 deaths from 511,260 cases, and Oceania 135 deaths from 10,443 cases.
Because of corrections by national authorities or late publication of info, the figures updated over the past 24 hours might not correspond exactly to the previous day's tallies. - AFP
